♦ Real estate exec Chuck Berman and his wife Melanie paid $6.7 million for a three-bedroom apartment at 15 Central Park West. [Cityfile]♦ Oscar Schafer, the managing partner of OSS Capital, has lowered the price of his 17th-floor apartment at the Plaza for the second time since June. It's now $14.5 million (down from $18 million), which means he'll be taking a loss on the property if he sells it, since he purchased it for $14.94 million back in May. [NYP]♦ Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng have taken their 11-bedroom Centre Island home off the market. It recently had an asking price of $12.8 mil. [Newsday]

♦ Page Six reports that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have bought four units in the American Felt Building at 114 East 13th Street, to go along with the 10th floor spread Tom bought back in 1985. [Page Six] ♦ Kitty Carlisle Hart's former penthouse at 1185 Park Avenue has gone into contract after spending a month on the market. The apartment had an asking price of $20 million. [NYP]♦ The owners of the seven-story townhouse at 1060 Madison Avenue have re-listed their 12,000-square-foot manse for $75 million, up from the $39 million they were seeking in 2006. [Curbed, NYP, Sotheby's]